Carlene Foster's Gallery : Solids, Summerhttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/g/carlene_foster/tags/Solids/Summer/default.aspxTags: Solids, SummerenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)Grandmother's Flower Garden made modernhttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/472272.aspxMon, 10 Dec 2012 13:30:52 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:472272Carlene Foster6<p>Most of us have, at one time or another, gotten the English paper piecing bug, if for no other reason than a multitude of scraps and a curiosity about the process.&nbsp; I had done several flowers and they had set around for a few years waiting for me to address them.&nbsp; So.....I used mine in a quilt as you go setting, separating each flower into its own block, then surrounding the garden with a picket fence.&nbsp; Now, I don&#39;t have to feel guilty about not tending to my flowers. :)</p>Iowa Star Scrap Quilthttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/457660.aspxMon, 12 Nov 2012 15:25:22 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:457660Carlene Foster6<p>This was a pattern created by a native of Traer, Iowa.&nbsp; This is just up the road from my sister&#39;s house, and I didn&#39;t even know there was a quilt shop so close to her...guess where I am stopping my next trip?&nbsp; This is the kind of quilt you do when the partiallly used fq&#39;s and the scraps outnumber the full pieces.&nbsp; It used a lot of scraps, and a lot of those fq&#39;s that I just didn&#39;t know how I was going to use them anywhere...ever.&nbsp; Loved the effect....and there will never be another one exactly like this one...ever.&nbsp; Next one I make, I will keep the neutrals very light and not use so much yellow on a focal block.</p>Pinks and purpleshttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/450940.aspxThu, 01 Nov 2012 21:31:34 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:450940Carlene Foster4<p>Inspired by one block from a sampler quilt and leftovers from the Wildflower Rhapsody BOM that I completed.&nbsp; I&#39;m liking this combination of fabrics almost better than the original quilt.</p>Circle of Bloomshttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/305681.aspxSun, 01 Jan 2012 20:30:20 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:305681Carlene Foster7<p>This is my rendition of a pattern by Pam Bono that was published in&nbsp;Quilter Magazine June/July and August/ September 2011.&nbsp; I instantly fell in love with the finished product.&nbsp; The process in getting there was a little more &quot;painful&quot;......I&#39;m not certain if I just was so excited to be doing it that I failed to carefully read the directions, or what happened, but I did a lot of unsewing and a lot more piecing when I thought I was ready for actual construction.&nbsp; This was the first large Pam Bono project I have ever done, so it is hard to say why I just couldn&#39;t get things to come together as the instructions stated.&nbsp; I love the finished product, though, and I&#39;m ready to do another of her patterns. :)</p>
<p>In the meantime, Bonnie K. Hunter:&nbsp; Please excuse the fact that I have not completed the Orca Bay Mystery quilt steps 7 or 8 yet.&nbsp; I was a little preoccupied. :)</p>